Seminars
Here are some lectures, seminars and talks that may be of interest. The links reach further information on each presentation.
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Investigating the role of sugar metabolism in controlling fate specification during gastrulation
Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Chaitanya Dingare - Department of Genetics
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link
The Marmoset Monkey as a Model Species for Spatial Navigation and Vestibular Function
Series: Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Jean Laurens, The Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience.
Venue: Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Detectability and cortical depth dependence of stimulus-driven high-frequency BOLD oscillations in the human primary somatosensory and motor cortex
Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Dr Shota Hodono, Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
The noradrenergic locus coeruleus, gatekeeper of the mammalian NREM-REM sleep cycle
Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Anita Lüthi, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room
Reflecting upon the double empathy problem: new directions and practical implications.
Series: ARClub Talks
Speaker: Damian Milton, University of Kent
Venue: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1
How do we protect the democratic information environment in an AI-powered world? Tackling online harms with computational social science and AI
Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Helen Margetts (University of Oxford)
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge
Brain and cognitive impairments in people with a new diagnosis of epilepsy
Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Simon Keller (U. of Liverpool)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre
Pharmacology Seminar Series: Human Pain Genetics
Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Geoff Woods, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology
Episodic Cognition in Cephalopod Molluscs
The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Dr Christelle Alves-Jozet, University of Caen, Normandie.
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Rethinking Academic Recruitment: Exploring the Potential of Narrative CVs
Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Dr Noam Tal-Perry, Research Strategy Office & Bennett Institute for Public Policy, UK
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
Pharmacology Seminar Series: Lipid Nanoparticles that Enable the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and Gene Therapies
Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Pieter Cullis, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology
Principles of learning in distributed neural networks
Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Andrew Saxe, Gatsby Unit & Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room
Conspiracy beliefs and interpersonal relationships
Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Karen Douglas (University of Kent)
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge
David James Seminar: Dr Feng Zhang
Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Zhang, MIT
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology
Neural dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network in goal-subgoal problem solving
Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: John Duncan (MRC CBU)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre
Challenges and opportunities for biological network inference
Series: Making connections- brains and other complex systems
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Glass
Venue: Online
Warnings Unheeded: 25 Years of Planar Cell Polarity and Convergent Extension
Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: John Wallingford - The University of Texas at Austin
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link
Revealing the Spatial Pattern of Brain Hemodynamic Sensitivity to Healthy Aging through Sparse Dynamic Causal Model
Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Dr Giorgia Baron, Neuropsychology Laboratory of IRCCS San Camillo, Venice, Italy.
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
ANNUAL LECTURE: Cell types as windows into brain function and treatment
Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Botond Roska, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Basel, Switzerland
Venue: Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Neuroplasticity in visual development, deprivation, and sight rescue
Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Tessa Dekker (UCL)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre
Pharmacology Seminar Series: Developing More Effective Pharmacological Treatments for Chronic Pain
Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: David Hughes, University of Glasgow
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology
Bilingualism Promotes Healthy and Youthful Brains.
The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Ancestral Sight
Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Riccardo Beltramo, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room
Title to be confirmed
Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Almog Simchon (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Venue: Online
Title to be confirmed
Series: Making connections- brains and other complex systems
Speaker: Dr Hector Zenil, King's College London
Venue: Online
Pharmacology Seminar Series: Title TBC
Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Alecia-Jane Twigger, Cambridge Lactation Lab
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology
Autonomy as an Engine for Wellbeing, Engagement, and Student Performance: A Gamification Approach"
The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Nathan J. Emery PhD FHEA, Dept of Biological & Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Playing with dice: two unusual use cases for experimental randomisation in fMRI
Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Dr Matan Mazor, University of Oxford, UK
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
Genetics of Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Traits – the Contribution of Rare and Common Variants
The host for this talk is Varun Warrier
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Dr. Hilary Martin, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge. UK
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Human intestinal epithelial organoids – translational tools to investigate epigenetic regulation in health, development and disease
Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Matthias Zillbauer - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link
Pharmacology Postdoctoral Researcher Talks
Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology
Neural networks underlying episode generation for fertility control
Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Allan Herbison, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room
Title to be confirmed
Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Paul Lohmann (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge
Psychiatric disorders, dimensions, hierarchies, states or traits? How can we determine the right ontology for research and practice?
Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre
Title to be confirmed
Series: Making connections- brains and other complex systems
Speaker: Dr Islem Rekik, Imperial College London
Venue: Online
Pushy guests: interrogating cell-fate specification in the early embryo through chimeras and computation
Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Stanley Strawbridge - Centre for Stem Cell Biology, The University of Sheffield
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link
Pharmacology Seminar Series: Title TBC
Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Florian Merkle, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology
What can conjuring tell us about cognition? The future of the Science of Magic
The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Simple principles underlying complex neural responses
Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Máté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room
A neural basis for distinguishing imagination and reality in the human brain
Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Nadine Dijkstra (UCL)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre
To be confirmed
The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Professor Katie Slocombe, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Model-free and model-based methods for estimating neural timescales
Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Roxana Zeraati, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
How to overwrite an instinct: neural circuits for learning to suppress fear responses
Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room
Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices
Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary U. of London)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre
Title to be confirmed
Series: Making connections- brains and other complex systems
Speaker: Dr Ted Satterthwaite, University of Pennsylvania
Venue: Online
The epigenetic control of variable expressivity
Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Anne Ferguson-Smith - Department of Genetics
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link
Pharmacology Seminar Series: Title TBC
Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: James Reading, University College London
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology
Principles of intensive human neuroimaging
Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Dr. Eline Kupers, CMRR, University of Minnesota, United States.
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
Artefacts in MEG data
Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Dr Golan Karvat, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
osl-ephys: A Python toolbox for the analysis of electrophysiology data
Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Dr Mats van Es, University of Oxford, UK
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
Title to be confirmed
Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Leor Zmigrod (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge
Title to be confirmed
Series: Making connections- brains and other complex systems
Speaker: Dr Mac Shine, University of Sydney
Venue: Online
Title to be confirmed
Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Lee McIntyre (Boston University)
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge
Title to be confirmed
Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Matthew Goldberg (Yale University)
Venue: Online
How do (and don't) we take other perspectives?
The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Steven Samuel, Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London.
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
To be confirmed
The host foor this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Professor Ron Mangum, University of California Davis, USA
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Title to be confirmed
Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Rakoen Maertens (University of Oxford)
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge